See resume for full list of publications
Books
DAVIDSON, M. and Ward, K. (eds) (2018) Cities under Austerity: Restructuring the US Metropolis (SUNY Press: Albany) link
DAVIDSON, M. and Martin, D. (eds) (2014) Urban Politics: Critical Approaches (Sage: London) link
- Review by Eric Sarmiento in Urban Research & Practice
- Review by Emma Sharp for UGRG Book Review Series
- Review by Sandra Breux for The Canadian Geographer
Papers and Chapters
DAVIDSON, M. (2022) Dialogues, Urban Research, and Times of War, Dialogues in Urban Research, 1(1), 1-8
DAVIDSON, M. and Ward, K (2022) Post-great recession municipal budgeting and governance: A mixed methods analysis of budget stress and reform, Environment and Planning A, 54(4): 634-652
DAVIDSON, M. (2022) Going bust two ways? Epistemic communities and the study of urban policy failure, in Lauermann, J. and Temenos, C. (eds) The Urban Politics of Policy Failure. (Routledge: London)
DAVIDSON, M. and Iveson, K. (2021) Spacing Rancière’s Politics, in Landau, F., Pohl, L. and Roskamm, N. (eds) [Un]Grounding – Post-foundational Geographies. (Transcript: Bielefeld)
DAVIDSON, M., Lukens, D. and Ward, K. (2021) The Post-Great Recession Geographies of U.S. Municipal Borrowing and Indebtedness, Professional Geographer, 73(2), 240-253
DAVIDSON, M. (2020) Between passion and reason: Rethinking critical urban scholarship for populist times, City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 24(1-2), 302-313 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2020) From Big to Small Cities: A Qualitative Analysis of the Causes and Outcomes of Post-Recession Municipal Bankruptcies, City and Community, 19(1), 132-152 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2020) Extreme Municipal Fiscal Stress and Austerity? A Case Study of Fiscal Reform After Chapter 9 Bankruptcy, Environment and Planning C, 38(3), 522-538 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2020) Going Bust Two Ways? Pragmatic Reflections on Urban Policy Failure, Urban Geography, 41(9), 1119-1138 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2019) Social sustainability: Politics and Democracy in a Times of Crisis in Shirazi, R. and Keivani, R. (eds) Urban Social Sustainability: Theory, Policy and Practice. (Routledge: London) download
DAVIDSON, M. (2019) Waterfront Development, Revised Edition. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Elsevier, Oxford) download
DAVIDSON, M. (2018) Participatory budgeting, austerity and institutions of democracy: The case of Vallejo, California, City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 22(4), 551-567 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2018) Private is Profit and the Public is Dead? City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 22(4), 451-459 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2018) Why not anti-Urban? City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 22(3), 313-320 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2018) New-Build Gentrification. In. Lees, L. and Phillips, M. (eds) The Gentrification Handbook. (Edward Elgar: London)
DAVIDSON, M. (2018) Post-Political City, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies (Wiley: London) download
DAVIDSON, M. and Ward, K. (2018) Introduction. In: DAVIDSON, M. and Ward, K. (eds) Cities under Austerity: The US Experience (SUNY Press: Albany) link
Ward, K and DAVIDSON, M. (2018) Conclusion. In: DAVIDSON, M. and Ward, K. (eds) Cities under Austerity: The US Experience (SUNY Press: Albany) link
DAVIDSON, M. and Ward, K. (2018) Postscript. In: DAVIDSON, M. and Ward, K. (eds) Cities under Austerity: The US Experience (SUNY Press: Albany) link
DAVIDSON, M. and Ward, K. (2017) Debt Wish: entrepreneurial cities, US federalism, and economic development, Urban Geography, 38(7), 1282-1289 download
DAVIDSON, M. and Iveson, K. (2017) Presupposing Democracy: Placing Politics in the Urban. In. Rossi, U. and Enright, T. (eds) The Post-Political City. (Routledge: London) download
DAVIDSON, M. (2016) Governance. In Jayne, M. and Ward, K. (eds) Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives. (Routledge: London) download
Davidson, M. (2016) Inaudible Politics and the Crisis of Democracy, Sociologica, 3, 1-13 download
Davidson, M. (2016) Planning for Planet or City? Urban Planning, 1(1), 20-23 download
Davidson, M. and Iveson, K. (2015) Beyond city limits: A conceptual and political defense of ‘the city’ as an anchoring concept for critical urban theory, City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 19(5), 646-664 download
Davidson, M. and Kutz, W. (2015) Grassroots austerity: municipal bankruptcy from below in Vallejo, California, Environment and Planning A, 47(7), 1440-1459 download
Davidson, M. and Wyly, E. (2015) Same, But Different: Within London’s “Static” Class Structure and the Missing Antagonism, City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 19(2-3), 247-257 download
Davidson, M. and Iveson, K. (2015) Recovering the politics of the city, Progress in Human Geography, 39(5), 543-559 download
DAVIDSON, M. and Iveson, K. (2014) Occupations, Mediations, Subjectifications: Fabricating politics, Space and Polity, 18(2), 137-152 download
DAVIDSON, M. and Ward, K. (2014) ‘Picking up the pieces’: austerity urbanism, California, and fiscal crisis, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 7(1), 81-97 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2014) Is class relevant to urban politics? In Davidson, M. and Martin, D. (eds) Urban Politics: Critical Approaches (Sage: London), 187-203 download
DAVIDSON, M. and Martin, D. (2014) Thinking critically about urban politics. In Davidson, M. and Martin, D. (eds) Urban Politics: Critical Approaches (Sage: London), 1-14 download
DAVIDSON, M. and Martin, D. (2014) Introduction to City as Setting. In Davidson, M. and Martin, D. (eds) Urban Politics: Critical Approaches (Sage: London), 17-22 download
DAVIDSON, M. and Martin, D. (2014) Introduction to City as Medium. In Davidson, M. and Martin, D. (eds) Urban Politics: Critical Approaches (Sage: London), 79-84 download
Martin, D. and DAVIDSON, M. (2014) Introduction to City as Community. In Davidson, M. and Martin, D. (eds) Urban Politics: Critical Approaches (Sage: London), 133-138 download
Martin, D. and DAVIDSON, M. (2014) Urban Politics as Parallax. In Davidson, M. and Martin, D. (eds) Urban Politics: Critical Approaches (Sage: London), 223-230 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2013) In the middle of a revolution… so where the hell is Stringer Bell? City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 17(5), 661-679 download
*Lauermann, J. and DAVIDSON, M. (2013) Neoliberalism’s universal: negotiating particularity in neoliberalism studies, Antipode, 45(5), 1277-1297 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2013) The Sustainable and Entrepreneurial Park? Contradictions and Persistent Antagonisms at Sydney’s Olympic Park, Urban Geography, 34(5), 657-676 download
DAVIDSON, M. and Wyly, E. (2013) Class analysis for whom? An alien‐ated view of London, City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 17(3), 299-311 download
DAVIDSON, M. and Wyly, E. (2012) Class-ifying London: social division and space claims in the post-industrial city, City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 16(4), 395-421 download
DAVIDSON, M. and McNeill, D. (2012) The redevelopment of Olympic sites: Examining the Legacy of Sydney Olympic Park, Urban Studies, 49(8), 1625-1641 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2012) Sustainable City as Fantasy, Human Geography, 5(2), 14-25 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2011) Gentrification in crisis: towards consensus or disagreement? Urban Studies, 48(10), 1987-1996 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2011) The Impossibility of Gentrification and Social Mixing, in Bridge, G., Butler, T. and Lees, L. (eds) Mixed Communities: Gentrification by Stealth? (Policy Press: Bristol) download
DAVIDSON, M. (2010) Hacking away at sustainability: science, ideology and cynical blockage, Human Geography, 3(2), 83-90 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2010) Sustainability as ideological praxis: the acting out of planning’s master signifier, City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 14(3), 390-405 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2010) Social Sustainability and the City, Geography Compass, 4(7), 872-880 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2010) Love Thy Neighbour? Interpreting social mixing in London’s gentrification frontiers, Environment and Planning A, 42(3), 524-544 download
DAVIDSON, M. and Lees, L. (2010) New-build gentrification: its histories, trajectories, and critical geographies, Population, Space and Place, 16(5), 395-411 link
DAVIDSON, M. (2010) The Parallax Urban Perspective, Journal of Urban History, 36(2), 257-262 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2009) Waterfront Development. In: Thrift, N. and Kitchen, R. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Elsevier, Oxford) download
DAVIDSON, M (2009) Social sustainability: a potential for politics? Local Environment, 14(7), 607-619 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2009) Displacement, Space/Place and Dwelling: placing gentrification debate, Ethics, Place and Environment, 12(2), 219-234 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2008) London’s Blue Ribbon Network: Riverside Renaissance along the Thames. In: Imrie, R., Lees, L. and Raco, M. (eds) Regenerating London (Routledge, London), 173-191 download
DAVIDSON, M (2008) Spoiled Mixture – Where does state-led ‘positive’ gentrification end? Urban Studies, 45, 2385-2405 download
DAVIDSON, M. and McNeill, D. (2008) Rethinking the park: centrality, mobility and metropolitan publics, Connected Cities: Olympic Cities (Metropolis: New South Wales)
DAVIDSON, M. (2007) Gentrification as global habitat: a process of class formation or corporate creation? Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 32(4), 490-506 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2006) Review of Cloke, P., Cook, I., Crang, M., Goodwin, M., Painter, J. and Philo, C. (2004) Practising Human Geography (Sage: London) in Progress in Human Geography, 30(5), 677-679 link
DAVIDSON, M. (2006) Review of Bell, D and Jayne, M. (eds) (2004) City of Quarters: Urban Villages in the Contemporary City (Ashgate: Aldershot) in Local Economy, 21(2), 233-4 link
DAVIDSON, M. and Lees, L. (2005) New Build ‘Gentrification’ and London’s Riverside Renaissance, Environment and Planning A, 37(7), 1165-1190 download
DAVIDSON, M. (2005) Review of Imrie, R. and Raco, M. (eds) (2003) Urban Renaissance? New Labour, community and urban policy (Policy Press: Bristol) in Urban Geography, 26(5), 459-460 link
Moore, S., Faulconbridge, J., Blake, C., Westhead, D., Slater, T., Brown, G., DAVIDSON, M., Huxley, M., Huijbens, E. (2003) Reflections on current developments in contemporary urban geography, Area, 35(2), 217-219 link